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‘And it's on what we call a common, and I have common rights, and every year me and the commoners get together.’

‘They are the responsibility of commoners with grazing rights in the Forest.’

‘In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.’

‘What will happen to the commoners and the verderers?’

‘It's a 200 year old celebration of commoner's rights to the land, according to this article.’

‘The Act of 1965 dealt with these problems by creating local registers of common land and town and village greens which recorded the rights, if any, of the commoners and the names of the owners of the land.’

‘We can also work with groups, such as commoners or other local groups, on joint approaches to finding new ways forward.’

‘Registered commoners have the right to keep sheep on the land and it is illegal to put up fencing.’

‘It is submitted that Mr Podger and his ancestors have had grazing rights as a statutory commoner of the 5,000 acres at the Curragh.’

3(at some British universities) an undergraduate who does not have a scholarship.

‘a commoner's gown’

‘If no one wanted to give him an award, the choice went back to University College to take him as a commoner if they wished.’

‘'Thank goodness I'll never have to go through [that] again', he wrote of his time at Marlborough, before entering Magdalen College as a commoner in Michaelmas term 1925.’

‘In 1596, aged 14, he was enrolled as gentleman commoner at University College, Oxford.’

‘It is surely relevant that he entered Oxford as a commoner.’

‘He was educated at Charterhouse School in London and was nominated by his schoolmaster for an exhibition to Christ church College, Oxford to which he was admitted as a commoner in 1720.’

Origin

Middle English (denoting a citizen or burgess): from medieval Latin communarius, from communa, communia ‘community’, based on Latin communis (see common).